“I walked to the hallway, and Woody was walking back. Then I was actually in the shower, came back and Tyson was sitting right next to me,” Anthony said. “So once I saw that, that’s how the night was going.”

Anthony was called for his second technical, earning an automatic ejection, with 6:45 left after he was whistled for a foul on Noah’s offensive rebound and apparently said something to referee Olandis Poole.

Luol Deng had season highs of 29 points and 13 rebounds for the Bulls, who won for the fourth time in five games.

Ross comes up

big for Raptors

TORONTO — Terrence Ross scored seven of his 13 points in the final quarter, four of them on a pair of high-flying dunks, and the Raptors won their fifth straight game, beating the Orlando Magic 93-90.

“He’s playing well,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said of Ross, a former UW star. “He’s earning every second he’s on the floor, mainly on the defensive end. He got some key rebounds, some tough rebounds in traffic.

• The Detroit Pistons ended a six-game losing streak with a 100-68 rout of the Washington Wizards. Former Eastern Washington and Kentwood High standout Rodney Stuckey left the game in the fourth quarter after getting hit in the mouth, but is expected to travel to Saturday’s rematch.

• Andrew Bynum was cleared to start a six-step rehabilitation process for bone bruises in his knee that have kept him out all year, but there is still no timetable when he can return to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.